He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: truth infinity insight value-of-life
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
Adrian RogersTag: inspirational truth christian righteousness
On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!
Mehmet Murat ildanTag: truth
The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.
Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom.
The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink," and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood. . . .
Tag: wisdom consciousness truth power humanity society murder mind psychology memory denial society-denial rape crime healing freud ghosts survivors recovery atrocities dissociation sigmund-freud posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma victims abuse restoration graves ptsd unspeakable horrible trauma-therapy violations dissociative psychological-trauma recovered-memory repressed-memory
The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.
Richelle E. GoodrichTag: truth reality opinions fact attitude answers viewpoint richelle richelle-goodrich
Love can be found anyone. Love's timing sucks nor does it care about situations. It's in us all. It makes fools out of us all.
Kristal FlemingTag: life truth love quotes realization author-quotes kristal-mckerrington
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
George BerkeleyTag: truth
What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand.
Flemish ProverbTag: truth drunkenness
It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.
Baltasar GraciánOur civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends. Any other assessment of the situation is mere idealism.
Jacques EllulTag: truth technological-bias history-of-mankind
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